Narcotics Control Bureau arrests Israeli national with 5 kg of hashish

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today arrested an Israeli national and seized five kilograms of high grade hashish  allegedly transported by him by concealing them under handicraft products.

The Delhi unit of the agency arrested Ygal Grinberg (40), an Israeli citizen, from Mahipalpur area of the capital after a trap was laid based on prior inputs, sources said.

Interestingly, the NCB team found that the contraband, worth Rs5 lakh in the market, was hidden beneath handicraft products and stitched between cloth items that are made in Rajasthan.

The NCB team had to deploy additional manpower to un-stitch them and take out the hashish, they said.

The anti-narcotics enforcement agency is suspecting the role of some small scale cottage industries units in transporting the contraband as the pattern of sewing could be done by machines used for the purpose.

Grinberg was intercepted at a courier shop along with parcel boxes, they said.

He was later produced before a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) court in Delhi and has been sent to Tihar Jail in judicial custody, sources said.